The Pros And Cons Of Virtual Reality Games

What is a game? Video games have been accused of being overly violent and harmful to the overall health of children. However, video games have been proven to be beneficial through researched studies. Although many adults oppose video games, they have cognitive, educational, social, and other benefits. To better understand the benefits, the background and history of video games should be understood.

The examples support the idea that VR is effective because it reliably gives the user the illusion of control. The writers responsible for this paper wanted to take that idea and push it to the limit. They believed that true effectiveness of virtual reality depended in part on the perception in our minds of what our actions are in direct comparison to how true the actions or movements in the VR scenario. The less cognitive dissonance between the users intended actions and the simulated actions, the more effective the simulation was in accomplishing whatever it was set to do. The researchers wanted to test dissonance in their experiment and see the outcome of how effective the virtual reality was.

Virtual reality, also known as VR or computer simulated reality, is a new computer technology that mimic an real or imagined environment, VR simulates a user's physical presence and environment.it does this in a way that allows the person to touch and interact with it. VR aims artificially create a sensory experience for the user, which can include touch, Sight, Smell, and Hearing.

First quote is “A patient wears a virtual-reality headset during a therapy session.” That means virtual reality is being used for therapy. 2nd quote is “Technology that immerses users in artificial, but strikingly realistic, experiences is poised to move beyond flight simulators and other specialized training applications into games, health care, education and mental health therapy, to name a few uses.” Those are more uses to virtual reality, and one I said in an earlier quote. The final quote for this thing is “Programmers can now create an array of lifelike sensations: flying like a bird, fighting off predators, riding a roller coaster or climbing a mountain.” This is why it is called “virtual reality.” It can simulate almost anything so far. In conclusion for this paragraph, those are some more purposes for

Physically and emotionally intensive virtual reality experiences could exacerbate existing medical conditions that could potentially result in serious injury or death. Also excessive engagement in virtual reality could result in ignoring basic human needs, such as eating properly, exercising, social interaction, personal hygiene, etc.” (Anthony, 2014, par. 2) As a result, Anthony suggests that moral and ethical codes could become compromised as a result of excessive virtual reality experiences. The brain will become unable to differentiate between situations where certain behaviors that are acceptable in the virtual reality world are not acceptable in the real world. As a result, a system needs to be put in place that will keep the distinction between the virtual-reality world and the real world

This has been the most common trend among avid video game players and movie-lovers. Many people loved to experience virtual reality. However, nobody realized that this might also cause problem in the future, wherein people will no longer rely on the real experience and will only depend on computer programs to gain such feeling

The experience of virtual reality gives us the chance to explore worlds in which we have not seen. But what happens when your mind can’t tell what is virtual and what is real? Glenn F. Cartwright, a psychology professor at McGill University in Quebec, Canada, explores this topic in the article “Virtual or Real? The Mind in Cyberspace” which gives a psychologist’s perspective and fears that virtual reality will become a danger to consumers psyche. Cartwright’s article is featured in the March/April edition of The Futurist in 1994 which was published by the World Future Society.

Virtual Reality replicates an environment that simulates a physical presence in places in the real world or an imagined world, allowing the user to interact in that world.

In conclusion, Virtual Reality comes from many different places and in many different forms. Whether it be from the media, playing a videogame or even just everyday life experiences. The thought and construction that are put into making these pieces have made an impact to people and all of these examples of Virtual Reality have helped begin a new way for people to look at journalism. The main idea is to “feel as if you were in the middle of something you normally see on TV

One of the leading virtual reality website VRS.org (Virtual Reality Society) founded in 1984 by Jaron Lanier, who is often regarded as the person who coined the term virtual reality claims that “Early forms of virtual reality included blocky looking graphics and crude renderings which did not take long to produce but would not meet today’s ever increasing demands. People want faster, smoother and lifelike scenarios which make greater demands on processing speed, memory and rendering time.” The experiences of VR users back in the 90’s is nothing compared to the 3d rendering and development of present day. Now since the demand is higher and price lower we can start seeing some of the effects on the users. The long term effects are also still being tested, but many of them are starting to be uncovered. The effects relation is more physical than mental and is usually due to eye strain (which causes problems with motion sickness). They are calling this effect “cybersickness” and it’s different for everyone. The main effects a user might feel due to “cybersickness” are headaches, nausea, etc. Age, balance, health, all influence the effects and it is completely different for everyone. Another problem people are facing is the factor of time. It takes time to develop these virtual reality worlds and the user can sometimes get lost in time and not realize how much has gone by. With more knowledge and tests the consumer can find their

Virtual reality is slowly creeping its way into the lives of every day Americans. Whether it be training a new employee for a job, teaching students, or assisting in military applications, virtual reality is all around us now. Virtual reality is not only putting a pair of fancy goggles on and going on a beachfront vacation. Video games and social media are both forms of virtual reality. Video games allow you to enter a different world. Social media allows people to be totally different characters online. While these two examples are not as immersive as the actual goggles based virtual reality, both are a part of most people's lives and they offer the ability to escape through a screen. Too much of a good thing can transform into a bad

When the word ”sport” is brought up in conversation, people automatically think of someone sprinting toward the end zone with a football in their hands or someone shooting a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounds. Even the less recognized sports such as table tennis and archery are highlighted during the Olympic games. The last thing that people would call a sport is something that requires you to be decisive and have lightning-fast reflexes. It demands that you to put in multiple hours of practice every day, all while never moving from your chair or couch. Video gaming is an activity that is enjoyed by millions of kids, teens, and adults all around the world. However, for a slightly smaller group of people, video games are more than just a leisure activity. For some, video games are a job.

Virtual reality defined as to produce and create the effect of an interactive 3D world in which the objects have a sense of spatial presence by using computer technologies. Our perceptual and cognitive system will be presented by precise clues in order for our brain to interpret and understand those clues as outside object in 3D world. In addition, virtual reality suggest a lot of benefits and advantages to education of technical such as delivery information through multiple active channels, addressing of dissimilar learning styles, experiential-based learning and so on ( Bell & Fogler, 2004, p 217).

Seeing is believing, these words are the best combination to understand the meaning of Virtual Reality (VR). VR is one of the best asset and aspect of our future. No other technology has seen such a revolution like VR has. It is practically in use in almost every field such as entertainment, gaming, defense, robotics, medical, healthcare, military, education, fashion, heritage, business, engineering and many more fields. VR sometimes called Virtual Environment has drawn much attention in the last two decade. Extensive media coverage causes the much more rapid increase in the interest of the masses. Very few people, however, really know what VR is and what are its open problems are. In this report a historical overview of virtual reality is presented, basic terminology as an introduction are listed, followed by applications of this technology in science, work, and entertainment areas. Its present developments are thoroughly discussed in this report. Finally, the future of VR is considered in two aspects: technological and social. New research directions, technological frontiers and potential applications are pointed out. The possible positive and negative influence of VR on life of average people is speculated.

Let’s start off with what we know about virtual and augmented reality. Virtual reality (VR) is a computer technology that uses VR headsets that are head-mounted goggles with a screen in front of the eyes that generate realistic video and with speakers or headphones produce sounds that simulate a user's physical presence in an imaginary, sometimes real, environment. The user using VR equipment is able to look around the artificial world and with another device such as a game controller the user can move about in it and interact with the world they are in.